Student Should Stay Informed
About DDP
By Laila Bernstein
Contributing Writer
I'm going to try to be straightforward. There are four things
I want to establish: 1) a brief explanation of what DDP is,
2) a personal understanding of why DDP is important to everyone,
3) an appeal for those who are shut down to these ideas to
re-examine, and then 4) a request for collaboration, support,
and responses.
Pro-life Semantics Misleading
and Unjust
By Sarah Bird
Contributing Writer
The "pro-life" movement survives on loaded terms
and misleading rhetoric. The term "pro-life" is
used in opposition to "pro-choice," which creates
an understanding that those that are pro-choice are somehow
also anti-life. As pro-choice indicates a belief in a woman's
fundamental reproductive rights, it shows a deep respect for
the life of a woman.
New "Dean"
Needed
By Jeff Horwitz
Contributing Writer
The last few years have not been good for either the Democratic
Party or for America. Recently, it's become commonplace in
the liberal media to look back at the final years of the Clinton
Administration and marvel at the perverse sort of "innocence"
that could make us believe that misbehavior with a White House
intern was a serious issue facing our nation.
Let's Just All Get Along
and Watch Clueless
By Kyle Warneck
Staff Writer
In the past few weeks, I have heard students criticizing the
Student Faculty Interaction Committee for promoting movie
viewings with faculty instead of lectures and discussion groups.
Some critics have said that these movie showings are pointless.
As a member of that committee and a candidate for Academic
Affairs Commissioner, I would like to respond to those criticisms.
It Doesn't Hurt You to
Reuse A Fork
By Audra Nemir
Contributing Writer
My roommate thinks I'm crazy. I have dozens of plastic eating
utensils under my bed. I have paper bowls, slightly dusty
from cereal that I got at snack last month, but still good
enough for one more use. I have a waxed paper cup from the
Pitzer dining hall that is bent out of shape after being used
continuously since last Friday. I must be the only person
here who smuggles red cups into the dining hall.
Keep on Protesting
By Kavin Paulraj
Staff Writer
I was picketing against the illegal U.S. invasion and occupation
of Iraq today, when someone quizzically asked: "Isn't
the war over?"
The war is only beginning. The United States
military, carefully protecting Iraqi oilfields, while allowing
the ransack and plunder of Baghdad's National Museum of Antiquities
and National Library, is in the Middle East for the long haul.
And the anti-war movement must adapt accordingly. Unfortunately,
hopes of peace and military restraint were dashed by the Bush
administration. "Peace" alone is not a sufficient
slogan anymore; Rumsfeld and Co. will easily co-opt it to
back their new Pax Americana (read: stability on U.S. terms)
in a neo-colonial empire in West Asia.
Resolution Reductionist
By Jennifer Jaskiewicz and Marisa Muscari
Contributing Writers
Let us preface this article by saying that it is in no way
indicative of our support or opposition to the war in Iraq.
We are writing to express our outrage regarding the vote for
the anti-war resolution held by the Associated Students of
Pomona College (ASPC). Writing and passing anti-war resolutions
is not within the ASPC's jurisdiction.
Rethink Routine Rites
By Allison Moser
Production Manager
Summer waits right around the corner, and that feeling of
the proximity of our end paralyzes action in strange ways.
Only so much can be accomplished in slightly less than a month.
You can get to know new people only in a preliminary sort
of way. That new relationship barely has a chance to grow
into trust. So, with books to read, papers to write, and midterms
to struggle through, we easily brush aside possibilities that
require an investment in an unfamiliar circumstance.
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